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    Manik Da: Memoirs Of Satyajit Ray
    Manik Da: Memoirs Of Satyajit Ray
    Manik Da: Memoirs Of Satyajit Ray
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    Manik Da: Memoirs Of Satyajit Ray

    By Nemai Ghosh

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    Satyajit Ray, known to his intimates as Manik-da, remains India's most respected name in international film circles. This book reveals in its simplicity the ease and camaraderie between Satyajit Ray, one of India's finest film-makers, and Nemai Ghosh, photographer extraordinaire. Manik-da is the latter's endeavour to depict the man behind the director's mask. Ghosh first worked with Ray on Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne, and Ray immediately found in him a kindred spirit who intuitively understood his requirements - and whom he understood. Thus was formed a partnership that spanned over a quarter of a century. In the process, Ghosh was able to photograph Ray at work and play, capturing on film the many moods of the master director. This nuanced and lucid translation from the Bengali original, which includes a perceptive Foreword by Sharmila Tagore, presents to the English reader Ghosh's thoughts on Ray with over fifty exquisite, never-before-seen photographs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateApr 15, 2011
    ISBN9789350299531
    Manik Da: Memoirs Of Satyajit Ray
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    Nemai Ghosh

    Nemai Ghosh is best known for his photographs of Satyajit Ray. He has exhibited at Cannes in 1991, at London in 1992, and several times at Calcutta and Delhi. He is the author of Faces of Indian Art: Through the Lens of Nemai Ghosh, Satyajit Ray: A Vision of Cinema (with Andrew Robinson), Satyajit Ray at 70 and Manik Da: Memories of Satyajit Ray.Sankarlal Bhattacharjee is a journalist,academic and author.

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    Manik Da - Nemai Ghosh

    A Note from the Bengali Publisher

    Bengalis are a sentimental people. They brim with emotion just as easily as they distance themselves from it.

    As an example one may cite the case of a film-maker in the 1930s, Pramathesh Chandra Barua. He was a pioneer who raised the standard of Indian films from just a stagecraft to that of the very distinct art of the motion picture. If it had not been for his contribution, Bengali, for that matter even Indian cinema would not have been what it is today. However, many of Bengal’s so-called culture czars have not even heard of him or do not remember him.

    A lot has been said and written about Satyajit Ray. Many papers have been published on him and his work both in India and abroad. This book is yet another attempt to understand and appreciate the genius that was Satyajit Ray, the man who brought Bengali cinema to the world stage.

    Books on him that have been published abroad are beyond the reach of the ordinary Bengali reader. Keeping this in mind, this book has been priced so that it is accessible to the ordinary reader, without compromising on quality.

    The author of this book, Nemai Ghosh, had a long-standing association with Ray, one that makes him a witness of his personal as well as working life. Ray has been immortalized in his camera. This book aims to share with its readers some unknown facets of the legendary film-maker, keeping his memory alive in the form of some rare and insightful photographs.

    Maitrali Mukhopadhyay

    Calcutta Book Fair, 2000

    Author’s Note

    During a recent session of our usual adda, Kanchana Mukhopadhyay was present while I was narrating how I switched over to photography from theatre, my first love, by virtue of being close to Manik-da. Thinking of the future generation she brought up a proposal to publish, on behalf of Bingsha Shatabdi, an album in Bengali containing some photographs and some reminiscences. Without any hesitation, I concurred immediately. I am sincerely grateful to her and to the publisher.

    I have received help in many ways in preparing this album from Gautam Sengupta, Bikash Basu, Sanjay Sau, Ranjini Chattopadhyay, Soumik Nandi Majumdar, and Satyaki Ghosh. The christening is by Rituparna Ghosh. I am grateful to all of them.

    I express my gratitude to my friend Shiladitya Sen who has unflinchingly helped in the process of shaping this book.

    I am grateful to HarperCollins Publishers India for bringing out the book in English. I hope my humble effort reaches a wider readership through this endeavour.

    Foreword

    Sharmila Tagore

    Ihave known Nemai Ghosh for a long time now. If you ask me to be precise about where and how we met, I haven’t the foggiest idea, but it feels like I have known him forever. What we had in common was Manik-da, who happened to be a mentor to both of us. Till such time that he met Manik-da, incredulous as it may sound, he had no knowledge of professional photography. Despite that, Manik-da decreed that Nemai Ghosh would be the official stills photographer for Aranyer Dinratri. Naturally, like many others, I too had my doubts, but of course no one dared oppose Manik-da. And once again how right Manik-da was and how wrong we were! As they say, the proof of the pudding is in eating, and the stills of Aranyer Dinratri were proof enough of the man’s sheer genius. What a perfect backdrop it was to begin with – the magical forest of Palamau, with its skeletal trees, must have been

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